caa a22 4500 386335605 CHVBK 20180307111732.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e198907 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0841820900002800 doi S0841820900002800 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0841820900002800 Kramer Matthew The Deferral of Nature in Hume's Theory of Justice [Elektronische Daten] [Matthew Kramer] In what follows, we must position ourselves in an obscure passage, a passage from the hostilities of nature to the serenity of civilized life. It is precisely here, at the dawn of social existence, that David Hume located the beginnings of law. His search for origins would eventuate in a narrative describing the spread of public peace by way of the greatest obstacle to such peace: unslacking self-interest. (That is what some refer to as an economy of means.) Along the route, language entered into his story with such prominence that it cannot safely be disregarded. We shall have to read Hume's narrative as a narrative - that is, as a textual framing - if we hope to do justice to its arguments (about justice). To cross the gap between nature and society, we shall have to discover that the gap does not lie simply between them, but also lies within each of them. More specifically, we shall have to find that nature is perforce hollowed out by culture. Copyright © Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence 1989 The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Cambridge University Press 2/2(1989-07), 139-150 0841-8209 2:2<139 1989 2 CJL https://doi.org/10.1017/S0841820900002800 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0841820900002800 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Kramer Matthew NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- The Canadian Journal of Law and Jurisprudence Cambridge University Press 2/2(1989-07), 139-150 0841-8209 2:2<139 1989 2 CJL CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge